The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world, in favour of one that ...

A campaign group is pushing to have the current world map "corrected" to show Africa is actually larger than the current ...

The African Union has endorsed the ‘Correct the Map’ campaign to abandon the 16th-century Mercator projection, long ...

The AU’s concerns are hardly new. In the 1970s and 1980s, the same debate raged fiercely until it was resolved in favor of ...

A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a ...

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has ...

The African Union endorses 'Correct the Map' campaign to replace Mercator projection with Equal Earth for geographical ...

How do you tell how old an astronomical object is? I mean, the next time the moon is in the sky, take a look at it. How would ...

A massive asteroid impact would unleash energy equal to millions of nuclear bombs, leaving survival nearly impossible.

The 55 countries endorsed a campaign to replace the Mercator map with alternatives that supporters say more accurately ...

Mercator projection is not the first time a European map distorted or misrepresented a region, says one expert. Another ...